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...International Cigar Band Society, 75 strong, gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day meeting, noted mournfully that "cigar bands today are tame and unimaginative." Said President G. A. Greasby, of Milwaukee (who has collected 40,000 different bands): "We have hopes that the rococo will return when the new shipment from Holland arrives. Our only salvation lies abroad...
Naturally enough for a novel of these times, the theme is the problem of freedom. Mathieu, a poor professor, has spent his whole life shaking off human responsibilities in a desire to be free, but he has only succeeded in making his life meaningless. Through the three-day span of the story, he sees many people, all of whom try to establish contact with him, and draw him into their society, to give his life a purpose. But though Mathieu would like to take the plunge, he is not convinced of the rightness of being a bourgeois or a communist...
Speaking at a Commander Hotel dinner on the second day of a three-day session, Buck told an audience of small town and city school superintendents that "Harvard's interest in public education is that of an institution interested in all education...
Following a three-day investigation which "proved conclusively" that financial solvency was impossible under present University rulings, the Student Council yesterday afternoon closed down shop on the 1951 Red Book and suspended indefinitely all active work on the 1947-48 Class Album...
...charged once again that Clark's investigation of Kansas City's vote frauds in last year's congressional primary (TIME, June 16) was "whitewash." But the Republicans ran into a three-day Democratic talkfest which effectively blocked a vote on the Kem resolution. It looked as if denizens of that alley wanted no snoopers...